Saturday, December 29, 2007

Year Of The Wild Cat Live @ The Parkside Today!

Hey there, Year of The Wild Cat is playing a show in a few hours- 5pm at thee Parkside. Original Rock tunes and covers;
Jack the Ripper ! Pat Benetar ! Black Dream ! Patsy Montana ! Its a Free/All Ages show at 1600 17th street in SF.

Friday, December 21, 2007

Maching Funds Grant for Life Long Press-- Donations period from Dec. 11 - Jan. 8, 2008


Life Long Press is pleased to announce it has received a very generous matching grant of $1000. The donations period will be open from now until January 8th 2008. Even small donations will help ensure that we are able to meet our goal.

The first official project /Back Room Live Magazine/ due out in March will contain poetry and prose form the nearly 50 people who have read for Back Room Live this past year. Hope to see you at the next reading!

Saturday January 26th 7- 9:30pm at Mc Nally's Irish Pub in Oakland with readers; Victoria Hudson, Lily Brown, Clare Becker, and Patrick Holian.

Please forward this link along to anyone you think might be interested in finding out more about Life Long Press!

Happy Holidays,
Valyntina Grenier
Editor-In-Chief

Wednesday, December 19, 2007

Autopoesis 2

The images below are from my second annual show Autopoiesis 2 at the Lanespliter in July of 2007. In the month of May I composed ten paintings (acrylic on canvas or cedar) ranging from 6"x6" to 5'x5'.


My Pager's in my Other Pants
Acrylic on Canvas 5'x5'
The title for this painting came from a mixed tape made for me by friend and writer Lukas Champagne.

These paintings are from the series Marriage

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Acrylic on Canvas 3'x3'

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Acrylic on Canvas 3'x3'